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strong economic development in Sweden during the last two decades, namely product market reforms and incentives to innovate …
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Sweden is often described as a country where intergenerational social mobility is high, but research also shows that … mobility for an extreme elite group in society: the CEOs of Sweden's 30 largest public firms since 1945. To our knowledge … former and current CEOs who grew up in Sweden and born between the late1800s and 1970. We have information about paternal …
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By the late 1960s, real effective taxation of income from individual firm owner-ship in Sweden approached 100 percent …
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We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using …
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This paper studies customer discrimination against fictive male and female food truck owners with Arabic names on a Swedish University campus using a web-based experiment.Students at a Swedish university campus were asked to participate in a market survey and state if they think it is a good...
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candidate-level data from Ireland and Sweden support the idea that dynastic ties help women overcome a vote disadvantage in … empirically supported by a declining gap over time, and following the introduction of a gender quota in Sweden. …
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We present a study of immigrant self-employment in Sweden using the recent matched employer-employee data from 2014. We … for their time immigration to Sweden. High self-employment rates are found for male immigrants from the Middle East …
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In the aftermath of the Second World War, Sweden dismantled an education system that was strongly influenced by German … came to share certain traits with the true educational credo of Nazism and likely contributed to Sweden's recent …
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and multilevel trust. To illustrate this point, a closer investigation of Sweden - a decentralised, high-trust and low …-corruption country - is conducted. Looking back over the past 20 years, and studying several indicators of trust, Sweden turns out to be …
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interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which …
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